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00:09Good evening everyone, a new edition of Romania Te Iubesc is starting.
00:13Romania needs a chronic investment in critical infrastructure.
00:17Today we are going to the Black Sea coast, where the accelerated erosion is exposed.
00:22For 20 years studies and rehabilitation plans were made,
00:26a time when we saw with our own eyes how the 250 km beach
00:31is becoming smaller and smaller, and we can enjoy the sea and the sun.
00:35Even if we had access to European funding, the projects were hard,
00:39stalled, with construction sites in full tourist season and dangers at sea.
00:44A report by Cosmin Savu.
00:56The biggest infrastructure project in Dobrogea, and one of the biggest in the country,
01:11is here, in Mumari.
01:13The project to fight coastal erosion.
01:16It is a mammoth project, over a billion euros,
01:20largely financed by European money.
01:23But this project is also facing many controversies.
01:27A project that should have changed the face of the coast,
01:31a generous and necessary project,
01:33developed badly, communicated even worse.
01:36This is an example, like a book, of not working with nature.
01:43There are some anachronistic works,
01:45this is how it was built in Europe in the 70s.
01:48Nothing is concreted, nothing is built on top of it.
01:55It had to be, by definition, a friendly project to nature.
01:58By size, by the material used, by the added protection structures,
02:04we have not an unfriendly project, but one that is really at the opposite,
02:08that is, it is a project of maximum artificialization.
02:13It seems that someone is closing their eyes,
02:16or there is a complicity on the part of the authorities,
02:19they say, it works this way, we can do it.
02:22Well, it's an opinion.
02:24There was no major discomfort,
02:26because we always had consultations.
02:29July, August, when it is the green season,
02:32when we have the most coastal tourists,
02:34I worked then.
02:36How could we convince the customers that it is good at sea,
02:39when the excavators were obviously on the beach?
02:46When you wait maybe a year,
02:49to get to the sea at the end of a week,
02:53and you find yourself in a full construction site,
02:59and you can not relax,
03:02I can only give them the rights of tourists and hoteliers.
03:07Nature works, and the erosion caused by sea currents
03:11has led to the loss of some land surfaces,
03:13including beaches.
03:15In the middle of the 2000s,
03:17the Japanese Agency for International Cooperation
03:20did studies and research to combat coastal erosion
03:23and rehabilitate Romanian beaches.
03:25And later, the academic environment
03:27participated in the development of a national strategy
03:30which was at the base of the next European-funded themes,
03:34in a master plan made by the British company Hull Crow.
03:37Florin Tătui teaches at the University of Bucharest
03:40the course of Geography of the Black Seas
03:42and is a member of the marine and river research station
03:45Sfântul Gheorghe.
03:47I noticed that about 37% of the length of the Romanian coast
03:52is affected by erosion processes,
03:55with a percentage somewhere at 43% sensitive to erosion.
03:59All institutions were involved,
04:01all the institutions that work in this field,
04:04that is, they have data sources,
04:06they have valid international analysis.
04:08We made a kind of prioritization or hierarchization
04:12of the most affected sectors of erosion.
04:17The total investment cost was estimated in 2007
04:20at 316 million euros.
04:22When we draw the line to all coastal rehabilitation projects,
04:26in 2024, the amount tripled.
04:29In the first stage, in the financial exercise European 2007-2013,
04:335 bridges were rehabilitated,
04:353 in Constanța, in the Tomis area,
04:371 in Mamaia and 1 in Neforie,
04:39being considered the areas most affected by erosion.
04:42The total amount is around 170,000 euros.
04:47170,000 euros.
04:49Yes, 170,635,000 euros.
04:54A technical consultant who worked on the project
04:57agrees to speak under the protection of anonymity.
05:00In stage 1, there was a budget of approximately 100 million euros.
05:04These were the participants and the participating consortia.
05:08They started with 100 million.
05:10They started with 100 million.
05:12And they ended up with 170 million.
05:15Was the amount supplemented
05:17compared to the documents and signed contracts?
05:21Listen, it's a thing carried out in 2017.
05:26I can't give you a lot of details because...
05:29We are the same players who were here in that period.
05:33I've been here since 2020, I'm telling you.
05:36Journalists from Info Sud-Est wrote about the corrections
05:39that the European Commission brought to the first European project
05:42for coastal rehabilitation.
05:44Somewhere around 12 financial corrections
05:46on all the contracts and all the additional documents.
05:49Practically, no acquisition made by the Romanian Appeals
05:52has respected the law to the end.
05:54And the experts, the management authorities,
05:57came and said,
05:59gentlemen, you violated the law on acquisitions
06:02and you limited the access of the applicants to these projects.
06:07And these corrections come with money cuts, as you know.
06:10And from 550 million lei, about 37 were cut.
06:14They said that the criteria put in these acquisitions
06:17did not allow all the applicants to participate.
06:21And then some were favored.
06:23Even in one of the cases,
06:25the media experts said that if the criteria had been respected
06:29and the acquisition had been made as it should have been,
06:33the winner would have had the second best offer
06:37and would not have been able to win the contract.
06:41In the financial exercise 2014-2020,
06:44other funds from the EU Cohesion Fund
06:47were listed for rehabilitation
06:49with a cost of 841 million euros.
06:523.8 billion lei.
06:54Other 5 funds were contracted.
06:57Protection and rehabilitation of stables in the Eri Gheol area
07:00and the Beriboina in the Delta,
07:02rehabilitation of the beach in Mamaia,
07:04protection of the Tomis Casino area in Constanta,
07:06the Agigea area and Euphoria.
07:08Among these, only Mamaia and Euphoria
07:10were received and the work was counted.
07:13The rest remained to be executed
07:15in the next European financial exercise 2021-2027
07:19with other funds taken from other sources.
07:22What funds are being used in this phase?
07:25European funds.
07:27From what exercise?
07:30From the current exercise.
07:34So, money is being taken from other sources
07:37to complete the work from the previous exercise.
07:40So, money was probably taken from unfulfilled projects.
07:44More than 500 million euros taken from other projects
07:47to be able to finalize what started on the coast.
07:50There are also finalized works,
07:52and there are works in the execution stage.
07:55We used them and we got to a sum of ...
07:58About 554 million euros were phased out.
08:03Half a billion from the old project was not used.
08:08They were late.
08:11Think about it, it was the period of the pandemic.
08:15The bidding commissions started.
08:17The bidding commissions could not meet.
08:20Phasing is a word that personally takes me out of the woods.
08:24Officials generally use it very easily.
08:29And it is not just the case of the project
08:32to reduce coastal erosion.
08:34Now they have invented another word.
08:37It's called staging.
08:40It seems less serious,
08:42but we lost the European money allocated for those projects.
08:47And instead of doing our job now,
08:51instead of having new financing projects,
08:55we are practically parasitizing the new operational program
08:59for sustainable development,
09:01with the old unfulfilled projects.
09:06It's time to talk about the quality of the sand on the Romanian beaches
09:10and about the consequences of using it.
09:13We'll be back. Stay tuned.
09:22The Romanian scientific community, but not only,
09:25has made available to the Romanian waters
09:27the data necessary for a project that could bring benefits.
09:30If the indicators were respected,
09:32the Romanian beaches would have become much more attractive.
09:35Instead, we chose sand of dubious quality
09:38and with oversized works,
09:40which seem to be made only to enrich the contractors.
09:45We had here a beautiful golden yellow sand.
09:49Your foot could reach the sand.
09:53It was pleasant.
09:55Now we are stuck.
09:58But you can't even walk on this beach like this.
10:03And above all, look, look what's here.
10:07The beneficiary of all the works is ABEA DELE,
10:10the Dobrogea Litoral Basin Administration.
10:13Are you satisfied with the quality of the sand,
10:16as it was foreseen in the contract,
10:18and as it is now under the feet of the tourist?
10:21From an engineering point of view,
10:23the sand placed on the beaches of the Romanian coast
10:26in the reconstruction phase,
10:29meets all the requirements of the sand paper.
10:32Let me tell you, the sand is the color of the existing one.
10:36Do you think it's yellow?
10:38No, I think it's gray.
10:40It must be from a proven source,
10:42it must have the granulation and the appearance of the local material.
10:46The entrepreneurs will be responsible for the cleaning
10:48and evacuation of the sand from the grotto.
10:51Do you want the sand to go by sculptures?
10:54Mamaia Nord, the beach sand,
10:56is it clean, angular, brought from authorized locations?
11:01Shouldn't it contain limestone or limestone
11:04in a percentage greater than 5% of the weight?
11:07Are these mentions in the sand paper fulfilled,
11:11according to your opinion?
11:13Categorically.
11:15The sources of the limestone have been verified,
11:19the actions of obtaining the agreement of means
11:23have been taken in turn.
11:26Professor Alfred Vespremianu-Stroei
11:29specializes in coastal geomorphology.
11:32In the 70s, the Romanian coast looked different.
11:35Yes, and you can see that it was a quite attractive landscape.
11:39First of all, the beach, as it is defined,
11:41is somewhere at 50 meters.
11:43The vegetation was present,
11:45the fine sand, since it is at the origin of modern Danubian sand,
11:49brought by the currents of the land,
11:51the very narrow slopes in front of the beach,
11:53the narrow slopes of the submerged land,
11:55so very good conditions for swimming
11:58and excellent conditions for the land.
12:00So here is probably a major misunderstanding,
12:03which was not allowed to occur.
12:05The material you use
12:07determines causally the profile of the cliff.
12:10More precisely, the slope of the beach
12:12does not depend on how you put the sand,
12:15but on the size of the sand grains.
12:18In the master plan, there were solutions
12:20for the source of the sand in the Danubian Alps.
12:23Later, for economic reasons,
12:25in the rehabilitation projects,
12:27it was decided to bring sand from the Black Sea coast.
12:30The quality of the sand on the beach,
12:32through the surveys and inspections carried out,
12:35was put into the analysis of the engineer
12:40who tested the results of those sand grains
12:47and who received the approval for sandblasting.
12:51I agree that there is a degree of presence of limestone
12:59behind the finalization,
13:02but we are limited.
13:05Whenever granulometric studies can be done,
13:08the reception process would not have been completed
13:12if, from a quality point of view,
13:16the characteristics of the sand brought to the beach
13:21were not included in our parameters.
13:26Trei Papuci is one of the most famous beaches of Constanta,
13:32a consecrated beach.
13:34The works were finished in 2015.
13:37In 2017, they were received.
13:40What I am doing now is to gather some sand.
13:47It is a scientific test, an orientative test,
13:50but which one could have thought of.
13:53I will take out 30 kg of sand from here
13:56to send it to the analysis
13:58and see if somehow it fits in the parameters
14:02that should have lasted 50 years on this beach.
14:06We did the same with the sand from Mamaia.
14:09The results of the analysis carried out in a specialized laboratory
14:12raise questions.
14:15The two analysis bulletins look bad,
14:18because the percentage of limestone and limestone is extremely low.
14:23On this bulletin from Mamaia North,
14:25we can see the percentage of limestone,
14:28which is about 15%.
14:31It should be categorically below 5%.
14:33Also, the coarse fraction is present
14:36in a proportion of about 1 third,
14:39so 33%.
14:41On any beach, if we take a sample of sand,
14:44we will find a curve with this shape,
14:47practically like an S, with a semi-vertical profile,
14:50because the majority of sand particles are of the same size.
14:54With small variations.
14:55In Mamaia, we had sand of 190-200 microns.
14:58Now, we see here medium-sized sand,
15:01then coarse sand,
15:03and then extremely high concentrations of limestone,
15:06so a very, very coarse material,
15:08and completely unsuitable for a beach.
15:10The problem is that it cannot be corrected.
15:12In order to obtain a suitable sediment for the beach,
15:16it is impossible.
15:18So this text, that in a few years it will look better, is false.
15:21Normally, it should have been a soft, light, pleasant beach.
15:28In the past, we used to walk 25-30 meters,
15:32and we would not reach a water depth of more than 2 meters.
15:37Now, unfortunately, due to the sand,
15:42that soft platform has not been realized,
15:46but it ends abruptly.
15:48And unfortunately, it ends exactly in the area of the graves.
15:52There are 7-8 meters up to the beach.
15:55Yes, because there is a depth of 1.5 meters.
15:59The behavior of the beach changes.
16:01Before, for example, the beach had finer sediments,
16:04where the beach was more flat,
16:06that is, with a smaller slope.
16:08At the time we had this situation,
16:10the waves managed to break wider,
16:12so we have a wetland area,
16:14with a larger, wider safety,
16:17and the energy that reaches the beach is smaller.
16:21Although in some areas submerged digs were built,
16:24the wave breaks, the sea sees its course.
16:28When coarse sediments are placed,
16:31the slope increases,
16:33the waves do not break any more,
16:35only what we have deep,
16:37they break directly on the beach,
16:39and then we have a very large energy of the waves,
16:42exactly in the wetland area.
16:44One of the biggest problems in 2024
16:47was the agreement given by the basin administration
16:50to work in the middle of the season.
16:53In the summer of 2024,
16:55the beach was closed to the public.
16:57The site was open to the tourists,
16:59discomfort and even danger of accidents.
17:02It's like we're in a comedy movie.
17:04The driver of the macarale
17:06passed the truck driver, after he loaded.
17:09That's how the site moved all summer here in Agigea,
17:12among tourists,
17:14and although the beach was not finished,
17:16they have long hair.
17:18In Agigea, tourists walked during the season
17:21instead of sports equipment.
17:28Only here is a board with construction sites
17:31in the working area,
17:33which, of course, was turned over
17:35and is not in the middle of the road.
17:38The prefect of Constanta is surprised
17:40by the way in which the Romanian waters
17:42allowed the builders to work in the season.
17:45Yes, there is a site organization
17:47and those who work there
17:49have to be careful
17:51regarding the safety
17:53of the citizens of the area.
17:55There were earthquakes in the construction site.
17:58So we are in the middle of a construction site.
18:01We will have discussions
18:03with the people of Abeadele
18:05as long as this situation
18:07has not been brought to our knowledge.
18:09Not only in Agigea,
18:11tourists walked through construction sites.
18:13In Jupiter, the same thing happened.
18:15This is not normal, right?
18:17In the month of May,
18:19when the season starts,
18:21the work stops.
18:23Then we are surprised
18:25that tourists leave
18:27to Bulgaria, Greece,
18:29because we do not have tourists
18:31on the next avenue.
18:33Everything is in ruins,
18:35even the beaches that are open.
18:37Do you mean that sign
18:39that is down there?
18:41No, no, no.
18:43The fence has panels.
18:45I can see the construction site.
18:47To be honest,
18:49that work could not be done
18:51until now.
18:53There are no lifeboats,
18:55there are no lifeboats.
18:57Romania, I love you.
18:59In the season,
19:01they worked just to be able
19:03to save the Romanian coast
19:05from a disaster.
19:07Why did it not come out
19:09in the last clip?
19:11Why did not the biddings come out?
19:13This is the moment
19:15when all aspects
19:17are fulfilled by law.
19:19The period between
19:21May and October
19:23as well as the season
19:25when work is not allowed
19:27is clearly specified.
19:29Each contractor
19:31considered the working period,
19:33the cash flow,
19:35and the working method
19:37according to this program.
19:39From the moment
19:41when the project was launched
19:43more than 10 years ago,
19:45it was thought that the rehabilitation
19:47works should be carried out
19:49outside the season
19:51in order not to disturb tourism
19:53or to create potential
19:55accident sources.
19:57The decision to allow
19:59these works in the season
20:01was made by the coastal
20:03administration
20:05together with the contractor.
20:07If it was a bad decision
20:09I think we can draw
20:11a line at the end
20:13to find the answer
20:15to this question.
20:17Workshops in full season.
20:19Why do affected communities
20:21of aberrant construction
20:23appear?
20:25We'll be back.
20:33In no civilized country
20:35are coastal rehabilitation
20:37in the middle of the season.
20:39This summer,
20:41the entrepreneurs
20:43did not take into account
20:45the rules or laws.
20:47The coast has become
20:49only a source of income
20:51for some people
20:53in favor of the Romanian tourist.
20:55Let's try not to cross the road.
20:57Why don't you take it
20:59on the other side?
21:01There is a promenade
21:03on the other side
21:05Marius Stamat
21:07is the project manager
21:09of the Dutch company
21:11that won the most bronze medals.
21:13In general,
21:15in the summer,
21:17the works are avoided
21:19to allow the proper
21:21performance of the summer season.
21:23I totally agree with you.
21:25There is such a forecast
21:27even in the project schedule.
21:29It is also the way
21:31we have prepared.
21:33In the summer between May 15
21:35and September 15,
21:37we will not work.
21:39But the weather is the weather,
21:41the sea is the sea
21:43and if we do not understand
21:45what the sea means,
21:47then I do not think
21:49we can have a very long discussion.
21:51The invoked pretext was
21:53that there were areas affected by erosion
21:55that would have to be repaired
21:57to be given to the tourist circuit.
21:59The two storms in November
22:01created massive destruction
22:03in what the coast means.
22:05It was still a disadvantage
22:07for tourism.
22:09Then, in February last year,
22:11the beneficiary
22:13called us and said
22:15what it would mean
22:17to start sandblasting earlier.
22:19Well, to start sandblasting earlier,
22:21all the logistics of the project
22:23had to be changed,
22:25because we had everything prepared
22:27to start in September.
22:29It is the moment
22:31when the sand is squeezed.
22:33Draga, who brought it
22:35from somewhere
22:37in the Mamaia area,
22:39where the extraction perimeter is,
22:41spends 7 hours in a whole
22:43process of
22:45extraction,
22:47road
22:49and now the deposit
22:51of the sand,
22:53which will later be
22:55extended
22:57by the excavators.
22:59The part of sandblasting
23:01at Jupiter Neptune
23:03is a decision
23:05of the beneficiary
23:07to be able
23:09to save
23:11Romanian tourism
23:13in the southern
23:15coast of Romania.
23:17I tell you,
23:19today the world is happy
23:21with 4-5 completed cells.
23:23The last stage of coastal rehabilitation
23:25was won by Van Oord
23:27after several failed bids.
23:29The Dutch signed
23:31in 2023 and became
23:33the player who dictates
23:35at the Black Sea,
23:37having the most contracts
23:39with ABADL.
23:41The respective contractor
23:43had an equipment
23:45that passed by the Black Sea
23:47and said to the client
23:49the Romanian water of Alitora
23:51now I want to do.
23:53You stop in front of the contractor.
23:55Usually this happens.
23:57When you give more contracts
23:59to a single contractor,
24:01the contractor
24:03dictates to the client.
24:05It is very difficult
24:07to get the dragon,
24:09but
24:11things unfold
24:13according to the schedule.
24:15You know very well, a dragon
24:17works day and night.
24:19They do not stop, the crew is changed
24:21and the equipment is in permanent function.
24:23According to this ship,
24:25this program was made.
24:27No, this was the ship
24:29planned to come.
24:31It was in a project in Sokhna,
24:33in Egypt, and you can check
24:35that it is a public project.
24:37And because the Egyptians
24:39still had some things to solve,
24:41the project was stopped there.
24:43Today, intense work is being done
24:45on the coast, not only at Olympus,
24:47but also in Costinesti, Jupiter
24:49and Aurora.
24:51We do not work anywhere
24:53in the beach area in Costinesti.
24:55We work in the northern area,
24:57where there is nothing touristic.
24:59The water is fluid when
25:01some boulders are thrown into the water.
25:03The gray water is ...
25:05You see, here you make some confusion.
25:07The gray water you are talking about
25:09has nothing to do with the stone
25:11we use.
25:13What it has to do,
25:15and for us, from the point of view
25:17of a tourist, is that the ground
25:19is very muddy.
25:21In the construction site area,
25:23the responsibility of rescuing the sailors
25:25was limited.
25:27They did not measure the depth,
25:29they did not put beacons,
25:31because it was assumed that there
25:33were no tourists,
25:35although there were dozens of them.
25:37My friend, go over there,
25:39as a guard, and warn the people
25:41to go to the sea.
25:43I also made the receipts,
25:45because if at least one of them
25:47does not come to be fined,
25:49I have nothing to do.
25:51Now I get out of here and they
25:53go back to the other side.
25:55No, they are too far from the sea.
25:57Look at that one over there,
25:59and I saw a few more people.
26:01The construction sites opened
26:03in the middle of the season
26:05have reduced the risk of accidents.
26:07If before, when we had waves
26:09from the south, some currents
26:11were created along the shore,
26:13they would not be strong,
26:15but they would not have any influence
26:17on the tourists.
26:19When these beacons are built,
26:21when the waves come from the south,
26:23their direction will be changed
26:25by these beacons.
26:27They change their direction,
26:29they come perpendicular to the shore
26:31and they will create favorable conditions
26:33for the appearance of rip currents.
26:35We notice that before the construction
26:37of the beacons, when the wind was blowing
26:39from the south, we had this circulation
26:41and when the beacons appear,
26:43this circulation no longer appears
26:45and the perpendicular circulation
26:47appears on the shore.
26:49We are talking about conditions
26:51where we have red-yellow stars,
26:53that is, there are waves,
26:55but not so big that it is forbidden
26:57to bathe.
26:59New beacons were made.
27:01For example, this long beacon
27:03did not exist, there were no beacons
27:05on this side.
27:07These somehow change marine currents.
27:09We have the most interventions
27:11of salvamari, the most cases of nec,
27:13of cese. These currents did not appear
27:15as a result of the construction of these beacons,
27:17it must be very, very clear.
27:19But they were enhanced.
27:21They were enhanced not necessarily as speed,
27:23but also as conditions of formation.
27:25That is, they can form now
27:27in more days than they used to.
27:29And practically we have created
27:31favorable conditions
27:33for the formation of rip currents
27:35on a wider beach
27:37than the direction of the waves.
27:39In euphoria, people prefer
27:41to stay on the old beach,
27:43where the quality of the sand is better,
27:45but also the entry into the water is smoother
27:47and with smaller depths to the shore.
27:49Giamandura, which marks 1.5 meters,
27:51is at much greater distances
27:53and allows bathing.
27:55But here all summer it was like this.
27:57It is narrow, it is maximum, top, top, top,
27:59everyone next to each other,
28:01but on the rest of the beach
28:03it is freer.
28:05It's a shame that it's so long
28:07and that people don't come anymore.
28:09What can I say, it should be the same.
28:11In the end, I don't have it.
28:13On the new beach of North Euphoria
28:15we found only a handful of tourists,
28:17even if we filmed during the season.
28:19This also shows the difference in quality.
28:21The sea is working, the sea is working.
28:23Depending on the storm,
28:25the bottom of the sea is getting thinner.
28:27An unreachable sign of tourists
28:29in the final areas is the size of the beach.
28:31For decades we will have this semi-desert
28:33in front of our eyes.
28:35For me, in a theatrical way,
28:37it seems that the sea is gone.
28:39I go to the sea and I can't find it anymore.
28:41The beach in Mamaia was built
28:43by the Dutch company Boscalis
28:45and received by A.B. Adele in 2021.
28:47To walk barefoot on this beach
28:49is a difficult exercise to do.
28:55I invited the Minister of the Environment,
28:57representatives of the Romanian waters
28:59or those of the Romanian waters
29:01to walk on this path
29:03on the beach,
29:05which is almost 300 meters
29:07up to the sea.
29:09It is almost impossible.
29:11If we look at Mamaia Nord,
29:13the recommendation was
29:15to sand the beach
29:17at a width of 50 meters.
29:19At Mamaia Centru,
29:21a width of 70 meters.
29:23At Mamaia Sud,
29:25up to 110 meters.
29:27This is the maximum value
29:29If we look now at Mamaia Centru
29:31and Mamaia Sud,
29:33we will see that the beach
29:35has a width of almost 300 meters.
29:37Where did this difference come from?
29:39The difference appeared between this
29:41part of the scientific foundation
29:43and the part of the design
29:45and construction,
29:47where, unfortunately,
29:49we were not consulted.
29:51You realize that everyone was surprised
29:53by what happened in phase 2.
29:55I'm talking about the work
29:57that was done in phase 2.
29:59I'm talking about the work
30:01that was done in phase 2.
30:03I'm talking about the work
30:05that was done in phase 2.
30:07I'm talking about the work
30:09that was done in phase 2.
30:11I'm talking about the work
30:13that was done in phase 2.
30:15I'm talking about the work
30:17that was done in phase 2.
30:19I'm talking about the work
30:21that was done in phase 2.
30:23I'm talking about the work
30:25that was done in phase 2.
30:27I'm talking about the work
30:29that was done in phase 2.
30:31I'm talking about the work
30:33that was done in phase 2.
30:35I'm talking about the work
30:37that was done in phase 2.
30:39I'm talking about the work
30:41that was done in phase 2.
30:43I'm talking about the work
30:45that was done in phase 2.
30:47I'm talking about the work
30:49that was done in phase 2.
30:51I'm talking about the work
30:53that was done in phase 2.
30:55The project here includes
30:57several bars, 3 pools
30:59and tourist attractions.
31:01You bought it and started investing here.
31:03In value?
31:05At one point I lost the money.
31:07Now I'm working on a financial expertise.
31:09When I have it ready,
31:11I'll tell you the price
31:13because I didn't want to keep the money
31:15because when you keep the money...
31:17Millions of lei?
31:19It's millions of euros.
31:21The technical memorandums
31:23submitted to the Romanian Water Authority,
31:25the Agency for the Environment
31:27and the Constanta Municipality
31:29were inconsistent regarding the number
31:31and size of the constructions
31:33and especially the materials used.
31:35It's wrong.
31:37We don't have steel structures,
31:39everything is wood.
31:41This is how your project looks like?
31:43It's wrong.
31:45According to your law,
31:47you don't have the right to close.
31:49There's a tenant here.
31:51You can pass.
31:53No cat can pass through that fence.
31:55No, you can pass.
31:57There's a fence here.
31:59I put it here for beauty.
32:01The big problem was the appearance
32:03on the new construction beach.
32:05To make these pools,
32:07you removed a lot of sand.
32:09What amount?
32:11I can't measure
32:13or tell you
32:15because I'm not a builder.
32:17But the sand is here.
32:19It didn't disappear.
32:21It was spread by the Romanian Water Authority
32:23on the existing surface.
32:25For that beach,
32:27a touristic arrangement
32:29was proposed
32:31for which
32:33the building authorization was obtained.
32:35Including Badelea,
32:37an agreement was issued.
32:39APME issued an agreement.
32:41After all the agreements were obtained...
32:43Was there a need for a notice
32:45It's a subject that's still being discussed.
32:47The mayor of Constanta
32:49denies any involvement
32:51in the illegal constructions
32:53on the beach in Mamaia
32:55and considers that he strictly
32:57fulfilled an administrative act.
32:59The flood is from 2013.
33:01It's on the entire initial beach
33:03before the sandblasting
33:05and includes urban regulations
33:07depending on the sector.
33:09The authorization
33:11we gave
33:13is in compliance
33:15with the urban regulations.
33:17In total compliance
33:19with those regulations
33:21from 2013.
33:23We didn't extend the judgment
33:25to say that
33:27on the portion that was added
33:29the urban regulations are valid
33:31because
33:33we gave the building authorization
33:35for what
33:37was proposed
33:39in the project
33:41is still
33:43on the old beach.
33:45The Dobrogea-Litoral
33:47pool administration
33:49was run for years by Hristu Uzun.
33:51It was reactivated from the pension
33:53to sign the majority of
33:55coastal rehabilitation contracts.
33:57All this was done
33:59to verify the concessions from the coast.
34:01I have to concede.
34:03I can't just...
34:05It's easy, it's not a problem.
34:07Dream about this project.
34:09I'm sure you worked hard on it.
34:11It's a matter of heart.
34:13It's a fashion.
34:15You couldn't finish it.
34:17I think I finished it.
34:19The fact that Mr. Uzun
34:21didn't extend his mandate
34:23has anything to do with this incident?
34:25Here, the Director General
34:27decides, but probably he does.
34:31Because there were some disrespect
34:33of the legislation.
34:35Later, Uzun refused the interview.
34:37Today, the owner of Kaelia
34:39is asked to dismantle the construction
34:41until September 30th.
34:43If you ask me,
34:45two years means
34:47until the end of next year.
34:49It's a two-year contract.
34:51I don't know how they calculate two years.
34:53According to the contract,
34:55it was forbidden to allow
34:57the construction of any kind
34:59on the new beach for five years
35:01in order not to affect the guarantee
35:03of good execution.
35:05I asked for an interview
35:07about the works in Mamaia,
35:09but I was refused.
35:11I sent the control body
35:13which found that the works
35:15executed on the new beach
35:17were illegal.
35:19There is a risk
35:21that such interventions
35:23on the beach
35:25affect the guarantee
35:27of the works
35:29at the end of these
35:31exactly where it could
35:33affect the quality
35:35of the beach.
35:37The control report
35:39was sent
35:41to other institutions.
35:43The file reached
35:45the DNA-Constanța table
35:47which verifies the way
35:49the state representatives
35:51performed their duties
35:53in this case.
35:55The biggest fears are
35:57that once a precedent was created,
35:59taking advantage of the extension
36:01of the construction.
36:03So the next day
36:05there was no bulldozer there.
36:07It started with
36:09a construction authorization.
36:11In your contract,
36:13it is specified that
36:15whenever the owner
36:17of the beach
36:19could take such measures.
36:21Is it possible
36:23that more energy
36:25was involved
36:27in this sense?
36:29Is it possible
36:31that more energy
36:33was involved
36:35in this sense?
36:37There is a cultural
36:39illegality.
36:41There are a lot
36:43of beaches
36:45that are not licensed
36:47and some individuals
36:49exercise their business
36:51and benefit from
36:53that beach.
36:55How?
36:57I think
36:59that this was
37:01the mechanism
37:03and one of the reasons
37:05why the beach in Mamaia
37:07was considered
37:09so bad.
37:11So that
37:13another construction line
37:15could be brought
37:17to the Ministry
37:19of Environment
37:21in order to
37:23build the beach
37:25in the old sand
37:27and to keep
37:29the new sand,
37:31the new beach.
37:33As long as that domain
37:35is a public domain
37:37of the state,
37:39it cannot be replaced.
37:41It is a public domain
37:43of the Romanian state.
37:45This precedent exists
37:47from the past years,
37:49we are talking about 20 years,
37:51maybe better,
37:53it passed from the public domain
37:55of the state
37:57to the public domain
37:59of the municipality.
38:01When, by the Council's decision,
38:03it passed from the public domain
38:05to the private domain
38:07and later
38:09it was granted to the private
38:11by the restitution.
38:13This cannot happen again.
38:15Let's be honest.
38:17Everyone is vigilant.
38:19In the coastal rehabilitation project
38:21a work was carried out
38:23from the north of the coast
38:25to Edi Gheol and Peri Boina.
38:27I presented to Romania Teiubesc
38:29how the entrepreneur who had to
38:31rehabilitate the ponds in the area
38:33violated the law and the contract.
38:35It is one of the most protected
38:37areas of the delta
38:39and at this moment
38:41the equipment is making a mess here.
38:43The contractor assumed
38:45through the signed contracts
38:47that he would have to work
38:49only on water.
38:51The contractor, first of all,
38:53saw the documentation,
38:55he knew what he had to do,
38:57he knew that he had to obtain
38:59all the visas, all the agreements
39:01on his money,
39:03which are offered in the procedure.
39:05The works here from Stavilare,
39:07from Edi Gheol and Peri Boina
39:09froze.
39:11They were abandoned.
39:13The construction site is dead now.
39:15On the fork of two years ago,
39:17the contractors of Romania Teiubesc
39:19and after the alarm signals
39:21were issued
39:23because the construction equipment
39:25and materials were going through the reservation,
39:27the ones from Strabag
39:29withdrew.
39:31They are now working, as far as I understand,
39:33on another medium agreement.
39:35An agreement that will replace
39:37the restrictions
39:39on passing through the reservation.
39:41This would mean
39:43that the trucks will come here again
39:45and not on the sea,
39:47as it was initially established.
39:49The German company,
39:51Austria,
39:53behaved like a Romanian.
39:55I mean, they should have said
39:57from the beginning,
39:59sir, we cannot access the sea,
40:01we have a problem,
40:03it is a restricted area,
40:05let's change the legislation
40:07for this strategic objective.
40:09Meanwhile, the law was changed
40:11so that in the reservation
40:13the construction equipment
40:15would be allowed to pass.
40:17The two objectives
40:19that are not in the restricted area,
40:21but the transit is in the restricted area.
40:23We asked the Constanta APM
40:25to revise the medium agreement
40:27in the sense that,
40:29considering the legislative change,
40:31the transport option should be included
40:33on the dry land.
40:35A significant impact of the works
40:37on the coast is also on the fauna
40:39and vegetation in the Black Sea.
40:41We have to accept that
40:43all the projects will have an impact,
40:45but there is an option
40:47to come with compensatory measures.
40:49In the developed projects,
40:51the constructors have to redo
40:53the affected areas of work
40:55and bring nature to its initial state.
40:57What is the role of your institute
40:59in the project to fight
41:01the coastal erosion?
41:03At the moment,
41:05in this project,
41:07we have no involvement.
41:09Fauna and vegetation
41:11have a very important role
41:13for the health of the beaches.
41:15Algae and seaweed
41:17are the organisms
41:19that help purify the water
41:21through the absorption of nutrients.
41:23At the moment,
41:25there are no proper studies
41:27to detect these changes
41:29in the behavior
41:31of some fish species,
41:33but there is a situation
41:35that must be corroborated
41:37by the fishermen in our conditions.
41:39When someone starts a project
41:41in the Black Sea,
41:43the fishermen are the last ones
41:45to be consulted,
41:47until no one asks us.
41:49The coastal fishing
41:51is affected by the work
41:53being carried out
41:55on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea.
41:57The situation of fishing
41:59today, in 2024,
42:01is the hardest
42:03in the last 10 years.
42:05Last year,
42:07we reached 3,200 tons.
42:09Tourism in the Black Sea
42:11cannot develop
42:13without fishing.
42:15The fishermen from the Black Sea
42:17have access to several areas
42:19to bring the equipment
42:21and dry the boats.
42:2312 beaches
42:25in Constanta County,
42:27from Mihai Viteazu village
42:29to Vama Veche,
42:31in order to develop projects.
42:33Today, we don't have contracts,
42:35we don't have places to camp.
42:37You don't have a place
42:39where you can come and camp.
42:41This is the fishing infrastructure.
42:43You don't have a place
42:45where you can come and camp.
42:47You have water, electricity, ice.
42:49Why should the fishermen be upset?
42:51The sea is still there.
42:53It is more than 200 meters
42:55or 100 meters,
42:57depending on the width of the beach.
42:59We have a national resource
43:01and we have to play the Romanian coast.
43:03The projects developed here
43:05must be thought in favor of the locals
43:07and tourists,
43:09and not for companies
43:11that make money
43:13with the cost of some jobs.
43:15Romania needs cost rehabilitation,
43:17but it must be done intelligently
43:19and responsibly
43:21to last for 500 years,
43:23as required in the job guarantee.
43:25Thank you for the message.
43:27We will certainly come back to the subject.
43:29Good luck!
43:31That's all for today.
43:33All the best!